"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" - What Did You Think?

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," the second installment in the franchise, is now playing in theaters. If you already had the chance to see it, we want to know what you thought. Write your mini-reviews in the comments section below.

On RottenTomatoes, "The Hunger Games 2" has a decent 89% fresh rating, with most critics agreeing that the film is very well-written and is an improved version of everything that worked and didn't work in the first installment.

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" grossed $25 million during early Thursday screenings. While it's still difficult to predict how much the film will earn over the weekend, but some early estimates place it somewhere between $140 million and $170 million.

Did anyone see Lawrence's interview with David Letterman?! It was too much! It actually proved how stupid she is...or at least that she drinks a lot. She didn't know what a hypochondriac was?! It's almost pathetic how people enjoy this girl and call her a good actress!

And I actually read these books. The second one is pretty much the first one with a predictable ending. Collins, Lawrence, and anyone involved in this garbage need to burn in hell! It's a completely sick, pervasive story that serves no purpose other than to encourage gore and lack of personality. Collins just wanted to profit off the teen craze and created a story with zero creativity and a mash-up of every frikkin' science fiction tale ever and pathetically compares it to Greek myth. f*ck you COllins! You f*cking poser of a writer! Now go drink yourself to death with Stephanie Meyers, Veronica Roth, and whoever else who thought they could follow stories like Harry Potter and the Ender's series which feature expansive stories and actual three dimensional characters and real f*cking themes! Instead you create shallow, boring, arrogant little prick characters with narrow stories with obvious paths.

Dear WP. Don't ask what people think the day the movie comes out. No one ever goes to see these things the first weekend. Wait like a week. I'm getting tired of people writing that they haven't seen it yet. It's such a waste of life reading.

@bando
No it's fine. Sometimes I can't stand how much she bugs me but I accept it. Cause I am HUGE film buff. Like the classic days of complex tales, original stories, and where film was about proving something, not just being the next trend. Everyone knows that once Hunger Games ends she has nothing because she can't do anything else but be an arrogant little bitch to everyone. I'll bide my time and apologize for those who keep hearing it. I have to hear people talk about how awesome this woman is even though she really is just a pretty face with the intelligence of Paris Hilton...sadly cut in half. LOL Unfortunately, because unlike her I believe in discipline and not just saying everything that comes to your head, I show respect to even those fools. It sucks to try and be the better man because then the stupid keep on spreading.

And no bando...I wouldn't tap her. She is so f*cking annoying I can't imagine a night with her be great in any sense of the word. She'd probably talk non-stop like that dumb girl in "Van Wilder" who let's the bad guy nail her and has no respect for herself. LOL

It was surprisingly quite good; both for a sequel and in spite of the fact that I felt the first film fell a bit short of its potential. Catching Fire effectively captures the spirit of the book (unlike its predecessor) and Francis Lawrence's directing is well-paced and brings an intesity that was sorely lacking in the Hunger Games. I suggest everyone on here bashing the film actually watch it before passing judgment.

@mongoose
Francis Lawrence is actually a fine director to me. I even would go as far as to say "I Am Legend" was actually a half-decent film. No one is questioning the intensity. If I recall the action from the book it was far more inventive then the first one, but that's all it seems to be is bells and whistles because the plot itself was utterly predictable once you found out a second story was following the first. There was only one way it could lead after the first one. Like you said, the first one lacked any real intensity and, to me anyway, was devoid of an emotional core. The second one, while I'm sure they managed to fix a few things, is ruined by an obvious story. Anyway who knows the basic rules of sequels know who will live and who wouldn't and what would occur. I read the second book saying to myself, "Got it...now comes revolution and then liberation." LOL

Good point,Sleuth. The film does have its predictable elements, not unlike the books, but overall I found it to be grittier and more intense than I anticipated. More balls-to-the-wall than the first. Well directed and edited. Recommended.

@mongoose
Alright I'll give you that. Lawrence is good with visual elements. He just never seems to get a superb script. Grittier would be nice since the first one looks like a throw in of ever science fiction film I've ever seen. LOL I said that already. It's just hard to enjoy this movie because the main character is suppose to be the center of it all but you really don't care! LOL She just doesn't give a sh*t so why should we you know? I feel like Katniss was created to represent teen rebellion. She doesn't want to be controlled at all even when the adults in the room give her f*cking perfect advice. It's just annoying. And, as I've made myself known, Jennifer Lawrence is a cold bitch on screen. Every character she plays is really angry, arrogant, and overacted. She's just a bitch to everyone and, for some reason, we're suppose to root for her characters who are usually the main character. You can imagine how annoying that is. LOL

It has to be better than the first, just has to be! That first film was CRAP!!! The books are decent enough, but the legistics alone of the second book require more attention to detail than the first director ever aspired to. The aren is far more deadly and the combatant aren't a bunch of kids that can't be shown dying on film. It's just a much tougher story that ratchets up the stakes in general, serving its purpose as the centerpiece of a trilogy.

If you thought the main character and the surrounding struggles of people being beaten and executed publicly are a metaphor for teen rebellion, then you are exactly the reason I don't waste my time reading the comments here. People commenting on how they haven't seen a movie, just because they like to see their little avatar with some words next to it on their cute little monitors in their parents' basements? Lame.
You f*cktards frighten me with the depth of your abject stupidity, but then maybe you're all just two or three people with different screen names and nothing better to do than hate on anything Alex throws your way.
I thought it was a great movie for what it was, and any series that encourages kids to pick up a book, unlike you willfully ignorant douche-bags, is a much better contribution to society than anything any of you are doing right now with your petty, sniveling, and 'clever' banter.